Telegram-herald., 1887-09-12
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ibe taak ~ the river and tbs i4uaaFsss
= tas-l svsa tggnlag a screw uS1s fresh
waser rsaiy washes tss clothing and
SPREADS A on tha baak - dry. We saw
5 m0lAsr WASHING her ealldIen iAces IA
! canal
The long Fds . T1ria szs full of pleas
ant memories u Paris. As Ne Ee4r the
| Alpa ss .ss uined cnatsaux oa lhs sammils
Of tie mountains. looking very picturesque
! ia ne ssEtln4 san OYeri90kinx tas zur-
| rounding county for asss. hoE mzny
| SORES their stones might tel / never real-
| zed 0efors hos good = neld OF corn
| could look tai I saw one 10 southern
1 france A cultivated English gentleman
stoIn 1e net a. the hotel ia Glasgow said
se bad net the least conception Of y aat
corr or eornmeal Wa that Il was not
I saieest there aad hzc not expected % hBd
/ IS liA nlV return % America All through
falos sad Northern Italy 1s saw CLEANERS
"a tas Nheal neids making the Old stories
| 0I fls Cleaners quits vivid. Bat Que
| feature surprised me. The delis of Italy
surpassed th0ss Of France la growth and
evidences oi care. Although the Italians
are nos personally as tidy A. tho French
they are Tar superior TO what had mag
ined livery movement Is grace Itself,
| ard they are 30 animated and GemOnstra-
i've Ia conversation that al the smuse-
nsnt on- needs IS " watch the people.
We did not dnger long IN Turin for We
sere more Interested Ia Pisa with It's lean
ias tower. Climbing 70 the top We found
aud then another Ia the baptistry We
found ex4ulsits carving on the pulpit. The
cathedral interested Us because Calico was
ed 10 his experiments with the
pendulum by watching the bronze
lamp suspended from the ceiling. as
il swung back and forth.
From Genoa. with its monument TO
Coi0n>bus. TO Pisa We travelled with q
highly cultured priest of London, who had
travelled extensively and was well read.
not only IN bis own religion. but in the
| books and questions OF the dav. lie was
| one OF the nnest c0nyerssti0nslsts | ever
met, but Notwithstanding his abilities, he
| met with a misfortune which gave Us the
benefit Of bis conversation for few hours.
Travelling IN company with three friends
he was commissioned TO get lunch, being
| told that q stop OF i've minutes would be-
made. But alas the train lett in three
and he foand himself alone in a foreign
city without baggage, ticket. money or
| friends As he did not speak Italian clerk
after clerk was brought up TO talk with
him and nnd out what was wrong; all his
Latin and French were unavailing. Final
" one was found who could speak a "leetle
English" and handing him an English
and Italian dictionary requested the priest
70 write out what had happened. After
much delay the case was understood and
many were soon found who were
willing 10 give him without money
and without price," as he said.
He told IS ne could not have been better
treated. Everyone seemed anIious TO add
20 his comfort. A brother priest tourist
from Philadelphia learned Of his misfortune
and invited him 10 accompany him TO Pisa,
where he expected TO find his friends. With
all his pleasant reception be also received a
long lecture from a gray haired man who
csnsured him severely for trusting his
money TO another and told him 10 beware
OF picxpockess. We had considerable sport
over the affair ss the American was an un-
usually genial man. He asked the London
gentleman what his friends would think 10
find him returning in company with an
other, and in two instead of one. "Yes,
they will be surprised, especially to find
you bringing back prodigsl son. A short
time since he visited America and this
statement of his interested me. He said
that mo scenery he had seen surpassed that
OF New York and Pennsylvsnis" lie was
more than pleased with our country and
be saw something Oft as he went as far
west as salt Lake City. he considered
Beecher a hero. as well as one of the great
est philsnthropists, for no man could take
his position on the slavery question, with
so much opposition, without being a man
of originality and determination.
| Genoa Is q typical Italian city with its
gardens. parks, monuments ami fountains
We found hedges Of beautiful oleanders,
which were one mass of pink blossoms
from the ground to . height Of twelve or
fifteen feet. I thought the hedges in Eng
land vers beautiful but these were
gorgeous, thousands of these exquisite
pink flowers in luxurisnt profusion formed
new charm 20 our list of Italian attrsc-
tons. Genoz's chief interest is the monu-
| msnt erected 70 Columbus dear 70 every
Americana heart. but It was hard to resiize
that our vast country-acknovledge TO
rank hrst-hss developed in less than four
hundred years. and that Columbus trod
these streets and looked on these buildings
long before our own loved land had been
seen by the eyes Of white man, and I
Questioned Why has America developed
- much faster than this old country? Why
does our land surpasz all others" II n not
TIE sense Of ownership inoorn in every
American heartf This land Is ours and
how dear is proved by the facility With
which an army Is raised whenever It is
needed In speaking Of the standing armies
il these countries was asked, do your
citizens join the army Are they not forced
10 GO ~"
We rode all day from Pisa through vine
yards. where the vines were trained over
trees, a1a. FOR the hrst time saw the olive
and - trees growing in their native eli
! mate. We ssw people under their own
Z ssre and fz tree Just before reaching the
Tbs Eternal City" I counted trenty-four
car tracks and recalled sbe old saving. AL
reads issd 70 Rome, httls thinking when
I irst read Il that ! should zee it 80 illus
rated We arrived lsfs in tbs evening aai
oar irst view Of This Old old city vas by
moonlight. which seemed 70 cast halo
over tae centuries OF memories which
cluster about il.
Paris has fountains without number
danny, airy ones, which throw the vafsI
in eicate sprays. but Rome has fountain,
vhick give forta wafer in grand. natural
wsy. In the Fountain OF Treve. the waters
foW ia torrents over rocks and
edges ard then are conducted
N rough the city. giving an abundsuce of
pare wster. Every SPOT IN Rome hss its
.sSeDs. ard this is sad to - the place
where tse Apostle Paul was executed, ard
that rs head was seen TO make three dis
iiEct lesps snd from The places Of coutac:
/ fhsre welied forth thrse different founts
. Na-~ ~. II